Homoeopathy: An alternative system of medicine

The system of medicine is properly used after civilization of human being when people used to live in community. In the beginning people use to thing the God Wish causes that disease so they used to pray to god in different ways. But later they believed that disease is also because of evil spirit so they used to use different methods to remove disease by magic and witchcraft or so called spiritual power. It is found that the world was within different illogical, unscientific and imaginary techniques during 5000 B.C. Ayurveda, a system of medicine is said to be created by Goddess Dhawantari, 5000B.C in south Asia (countries including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri-lanka).

Chinese system medicine also claimed a scientific system of medicine-developed 3000B.C. During Egyptian Civilization also there was development of system of medicine but during that period Mesopotamia (now Iraq) also had own system of medicine that basically believed in magic for treatment. After Egyptian civilization, the systematization of system of medicine is began widely from the time of Hippocrates of Greece, a father of medicine developed the methods and approach for the treatment. He mentioned that disease can be treated with two laws, one is opposite cures opposite and other is like cures like. He also challenged the old traditional methods of treatment. After Greek civilization, Galen of Roman was the leading figure to develop the system of medicine, following the law of Hippocrates i.e. opposite cures opposite. Galen Theories were more dominant till the 1500 A.D .After the Roman civilization the Europe was in middle age and remaining as Dark Age. But During the Dark Age, Arabian developed own system of medicine, borrowing all methods of treatment from Greece and Roman civilization which is called UNANI. After 1500A.D whole Europe stretch its limb toward revolution and inventions were begin one after another and allopathic system, a modern system of medicine is started to develop and progress only after 1900 A.D but, During revolution period in Europe, A porcelain painter, Christian Gottfried Hahnemann and mother Johanna gave birth to third son Samuel Hahnemann in 1755April 10,in Saxony district of Meissein, in Germany who became founder of Homoepathic medicine.

Invention of Homeopathic system of medicine
Dr.Samuel Hahnemann of Germany in 1796A.D.After receiving degree of allopathic system of medicine in 1779 A.D invents homeopathic system of medicine. He was practicing medicine with his procured best knowledge but he was dissatisfied with the system of practicing medicine of that day and left the practicing. Then he started translating the different languages books from one to another to earn for bread and butter, as he was master of more than twenty languages. In 1790, he was translating book of Dr. Cullen’s Materia Medica of England in which there was chapter of Cinchona bark or Peruvian bark from which quinine is derived. Dr. Cullen mentioned that cinchona bark could cure malaria fever because of its bitter taste. He was totally dissatisfied with the comments of Dr.Cullen as cinchona bark was used since 16 century as gold to remove malaria fever and there are many substances that have bitter taste. To find out the truth, Dr.Samuel took the juices of cinchona bark for few days as the prescribed doses to malaria fever patient. Surprisingly, Dr.Hahnemann received the malaria like symptoms with its allied symptoms and sign without mosquito bites. At first, he thought it was his psychological effects so he tried with same substance with family members but found the same results, again with his colleagues and friends even then same results .For six years he did research of different substances of having medicinal qualities to different age, sex people to test that the substance when given to healthy individual produce sign and symptoms. Finally in 1796A.D. he concluded that when a substance is given to healthy individual, it can produce signs and symptoms (mentally and physically) on healthy individual. The sign and symptoms which are produced by drug similar to the sign and symptoms of diseased individual then the medicine prepared from that substance is given sick person to make healthy is called as homoeopathic system of medicine. So the medicine of any substance carry cures if it has capability to produce sign and symptoms on healthy individual. This is the only system where the subjective symptoms along with objective symptoms and signs are recorded in book called Homoeopathic Materia Medica after drug proving on healthy individual.

How homoeopathic medicines are prepared
The homoeopathic medicine are prepared from different sources like Animal kingdom, Vegetable kingdom, Mineral Kingdoms (organic and inorganic),Sarcodes(excretion and secretion of healthy animals, Nosodes(Diseased secretion of animals),Impondrebilia(rays like Luna-moon, X-rays).
Homoeopathic medicine is prepared from single substance and it is not mixed with other substance. There are two processes to prepared medicine
i)Potentization: In this process the soluble substance is used .The one part of drug substance is mixed with 99 parts of strong alcohol is mixed and prepared to make first potency by potentization process and one part of prepared first potency medicine mixed with 99 parts of strong alcohol to prepare second potency medicine by potentization process and higher potency is prepared in this process in which there is less material doses but more dynamic power.
ii)Trituration: The process is for basically for the insoluble substances in which nine part of sugar of milk(powder that is prepared from goat milk) and one part of substance and triturate 1hour in clock wise direction to make first potency and second potency is prepared by mixing one part of first potency with 9 parts of sugar of milk(powder prepared from goat milk) and triturate.
The higher potency are prepare so on which carries dynamic power.
The pharmacist dispenses the homoeopathic medicine in three forms with non-medical substances and they are follows:
The homoeopathic medicine is given to patient in distill water, mixing with globules (prepared from sugar cane) and sugar of milk. These distil water; globules and sugar of milk are just vehicles which carry the medicinal power and easy way to make doses for prescribing to patient during treatment. These homoeopathic medicines are prepared at different homoeopathic laboratories or companies in different countries following homoeopathic pharmacopoeia and it is not prepared at home or by physician himself. Pharmacist or physician simply mixes the medicine with the vehicle (vehicle can be use any one mentioned above) to dispense and make easy for taking medicine.
How homoeopathic Physician treat a patient
First of all homoeopathic physician collects all morbid sign and symptoms of patients including mental pictures .The generalities like appetite, Thirst, sleep position, dream about, stool & urine –characters, aggravation period or stimulating factors of sign and symptoms, relief or amelioration of symptoms as time or by any factors, desire for special taste or food, aversion of food or taste, in toleration factors, food or taste, patient liking of cold or hot weather or feeling better or worse by hot or cold temperature, sweat either on parts of body and characters, if female, menstrual cycle with its characters. Personal history, Past history, Family history, clinical findings and investigation methods like blood tests, stool test, urine test , x-ray, C.T. scan, ultrasound, MRI and other special tests according to necessity. Then physician evaluates all sign & symptoms. The physician also diagnoses the case with the help of all sign and symptoms along with results received from modern techniques of investigations for the management part, repetition of doses and for potency of medicine.
He goes through a process Repertorisation from which few medicines may come out and among which finally physician select one medicine to prescribe to patient. Physician always prescribes one medicine at a time but if he finds given medicine does not show require action only then he prescribe another medicine after evaluation of sign and symptoms again. But physician does not give previous medicine while giving the new one. He always prescribes only one medicine at a time.
After prescribing the medicine, there is a Kent 12 observation to check about the action of medicine taken by patient and it helps to know whether the medicine is suitable for the patient or not, if the patient starts improving then the cure take place with Herring law of cure which is as follows:
The sign and symptoms of the patient go away from head to foot, inward to outward and the last goes first and first goes last. The sever situation of sign and symptoms are also in balanced condition to make patient comfort though the cure takes place as said above.
The homeopathic physician treats a patient as a whole with holistic approach. Disease is the collections of morbid sign and symptoms and an individual may suffer from single disease or no. of diseases. Physician does not prescribe medicine on each named disease because homoeopathy believe that if person is in healthy then disease does not exist which can be possible by removing all morbid sign and symptoms means free from morbid sign and symptoms and of course when there are no morbid sign and symptoms the patient is free from disease also .The time period of cure takes place according to the disease conditions that is character of sign and symptoms and also duration of suffering and vitality of individual.
Disease of acute will take less time and chronic state of patient will take more time according to state of organic condition as well as vitality of individual and also the curability of patient as well as time period also depends on individual to individual depending on its vitality as well as pathological condition of patient.
Homoeopathic carries answers for so many diseases of which have no solution or patient need to carry whole their life with that problems especially the chronic one as well as acute types. If we talk according to name of diseases then there are so many answer for the illness like anxiety, depression, neurosis and other mental disorder, neurological problem likes sciatica, migraine and other nerve problems, even we talk about eye there are answer for premature cataract, redness of eye by different causes like viral or pterizium, tarsal cyst, stye and other many eye problem where there is big difficulties to find answer for it by other system of medicine. Cardiac problems, Digestive, Respiratory- bronchial asthma, chronic cough and other problems, problems due to bones and joints, endocrinological problems like thyroid, diabetics. Skin diseases like eczema, warts, ring worms,psorasis and so many diseases. Ear, Nose and throat problems like sinusitis ,pharyxitis ,tonsillitis .Surgical conditions where simple medicine help to remove the problems like benign tumors, warts and other so many problems making surgery not necessary .
But every physician or anyone has to think and not wise to comment falsely regarding any system of medicine without having proper information or knowledge on that subject. Patient gets well depending upon the cases or state of patient because not all problem have their solutions. And every system is trying to remove the problem remaining within its limits.
So homoeopathic physician can treat the case only after going through proper case taking with application of modern investigation procedures and cure can be achieve depending on individual to individual case. This is the only system of medicine in which subjective symptoms are important to physician as well as objective sign and symptoms during treatment of any case. Even after treatment if part of body shows normal condition after treatment and other part does not that means patient still remain sick not healthy. To be healthy, patient must be free from all morbid sign and symptoms i.e. mentally and physically.
Homoeopathic system also carries its own limitation during treatment for achieving cure but it is scientific as well as no side effects of medicine but medicine must be prescribe by qualified physician and one medicine name at a time though doses can vary according to cases. The name of medicine can be change even after an hour, days and week or months or even year but always one medicine at a time of prescribing by physician.
If any person takes homoeopathic unnecessarily for long period then it may causes problems having artificial disease so without prescription of physician medicine must not be taken. As I said above that homoeopathic medicine has capability to produce sign and symptoms which may remain inside of the body if medicine is used unnecessarily and create artificial disease and these type of artificial disease is very difficult to cure (it is also applicable to other system of medicine where medicine are taken more than require or unnecessarily for long period).
For example to define homeopathy,
If a patient is suffering from throat problem say pharynxitis with feeling of soreness and pain, running nose with discharge in acrid character, cough bland lacrymation and radiating nerve pain. These are the symptoms produce by the Allium cepa(onion) when drug proving. And when medicine prepared from onion given to patient then his symptoms will go away making him free from morbid sign and symptoms because medicine symptoms and diseased person symptoms are similar and two similar things cannot exist at one place that is in body .Medicine is always stronger than disease condition so that symptoms of disease condition will go away and the medicine sign and symptoms will go away after few time as it was introduced only with minimum the quantity that require to remove sickness of patient.
Hence homoeopathy is to be promoted by providing its real meaning to general people that qualified homoeopaths (only few in number in case of our country) who deals patient going through proper case taking, investigating and diagnosing the suffering and prescribe only one named medicine during time of prescription is the only way to make this system development and also make aware from pseudo homoeopaths who are making money in the name of this system and defaming its efficacy.

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